Arado, Stephanie

She is a violinist born in Chicago who started to play the Suzuki Method on the violin when she was five years old and studied at Meadowmount School of Music. When she was eight years old she performed her first solo recital and when she was 12 she debuted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She attended the Aspen Music School for five summers as a Fellowship student and went on to earn her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music degree at Western Illinois University followed by her Master of Music degree at Juilliard School.

When she was 21 years old she played with the European Union Youth Orchestra, making her the first American to receive an invitation to perform with them. She also performed by invitation at the Musiktreffen chamber music festival in Switzerland.

In 1991 she took the Loring M. Staples Chair at the Minnesota Orchestra in the position of Assistant Concertmaster and took a year out in the 1995/6 season to play as Concertmaster with the Colorado Symphony. She remained with the Minnesota Orchestra until 2013 when she left to pursue a career as a freelance performer and teacher at the Interlochen Center for the Arts.

As a soloist she has performed with several orchestras that include the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Colorado Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra and the St Louis Symphony Orchestra.

An avid chamber musician, she is co- founder and Co-Artistic Director of the McKnight Artist Fellowship and award winning The Bakken Trio which is a consortium of musicians who design diverse chamber music programs. She has also played as a member of The Isles Ensemble, been a guest musician with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and participated in many chamber music festivals on a national and international basis.

Recordings she has performed on include (Sea Trials) by Absentstar, Young Sunset by Rupert Angeleyes, Deep Peace and Eternity’s Sunrise by Bill Douglas, Seen a Ghost by Honeydogs, On Broadway with The O’Neill Brothers and Here Come the Irish by The O’Neill Brothers, At Home and Abroad by Shark-Hagedorn Duo, There Is Room for Us All by Lori True, Offshore: Chamber Works by Joseph Waters and the 1994 Cast Recording of Hello, Dolly!

In the field of musical education she is an Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of Minnesota. She has also been a teacher at the Interlochen Arts Academy, which she herself graduated from in 1982 and left the Minnesota Orchestra to join, and has given master classes at many venues. She maintains a private teaching studio in Minneapolis.

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